As the House Immigration Subcommittee begins its latest controversial hearing on immigration issues, the panel's leadership is facing withering attacks from two Latino leaders in Congress.
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In a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about her Department's deportation practices. Sen. Grassley was particular agitated about the "threat" of Napolitano using prosecutorial discretion and allowing some individuals with compelling cases to delay...
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On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration is holding another in its series of blatantly anti-immigration hearings.
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Roxie Bacon, a former Obama Administration immigration official who has 40 years of experience in immigration law, knows what makes for an effective U.S. immigration system -- and what doesn't. She spent the last couple years working in D.C. at the Department of Homeland Security and saw a...
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There is growing concern that the federal 287(g) and "Secure Communities" programs, which puts local law enforcement officers on the front lines of enforcing federal immigration laws, are actually making communities less secure.
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The leaders of House Mass Deportation Caucus, Reps. Smith, Gallegly, and King, are not only driving the GOP immigration strategy, they are driving their party off of a political cliff.
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A proposal in the Texas state legislature to crack down on the hiring of undocumented immigrants features a huge exception for household labor -- once again exposing the breathtaking hypocrisy of some Republicans who want to sound tough on the issue, but still benefit from undocumented labor. ...
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This backgrounder on constitutional citizenship reveals that recent attempts to deny citizenship to babies is unconstitutional and wrong, leading to millions of dollars lost in litigation, and viewed by the fastest growing voting demographic -- Latinos -- as an attack on their community. Moreover, revoking the 14th amendment...
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As I was coming off the plane from Indiana this weekend, a Latina flight attended tabbed my "I support the DREAM Act" pin and said "me too." Two years ago, I would have been surprised that someone I didn't know would recognize my DREAM Act pin and...
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Today, the leaders of the House Mass Deportation Caucus, Reps. Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Steve King (R-IA) and Lamer Smith (R-TX), have organized a hearing that they've disingenuously titled "Making Immigration Work for American Minorities." That's not what it's about.
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